Does England’s rapid expansion of charter-like ‘academies’ hold a lesson for the U.S.?

Sep 24, 2017

Chalk Beat – Matt Barnum

“U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos wants more schools to be free from what she characterizes as ineffective, bureaucratic rules. “In too many places there isn’t the kind of autonomy at a building level to really kind of break out of that mold and do things differently to meet students’ needs,” DeVos said in a recent interview. But is that autonomy itself likely to improve schools? .”(more)